Opinions Please

[phleb]

Is it acceptable for a school teacher to use the term 'posse' or p*ssys in the school playground?. I would think that is highly unacceptable and like street talk/bad language and shouldn't be used by teachers at school.

My child came home saying there was an incident involving her friend, and when her friend made her way back to her group of friends and the teacher said 'go running to your posse. My child wasn't sure whether she said posse or p*ssys..my child does not use any kind of rude words or street words, so this was a shock to me.

[baza]

may have used the term posse as in gang.

[MargoTester]

She must have said posse, as a n the sheriff's posse. A group of people who have a common characteristics (def)

[ummmm]

It's an innocent word.

[jno]

we used to have posses in the playground when I was young and saw lots of westerns. It just meant a group of friends rather than a gang. It may still carry that old meaning, but I'm now too old to be sure.

Highly unlikely that she said ***.

[Peter Pedant]

we only used it in cowboys and indians - fifty years ago

the only other - assuming you are not getting around the spelling filters of AB is - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_posse_ad_esse_non_valet_consequentia

a posse ad esse non valet consequentia

which if a teacher used I would tell the child to hang around as he clearly was gonna learn something....

[viv41]

'posse'.

[DTCwordfan]

Mine aged 5 came out with "I'm going to whack you on the fanny" to her mother - bear in mind it was in the States where things are the other way around. This was not language that was used at home - one look at my wife and laughter - and "Schoooool."

[baza]

Lets get a group of like minded people and go after the nasty bank robbers or get up a posse and get the ......
Which would you choose ?

[Tilly2]

Posse, is fine. I doubt that she used the other word.

[Peter Pedant]

when I was six and fell over the in the play ground ( yeah 1955 )
the elder girl deputed to clean me up said:

who 's a silly bagger then ?

and I kinda knew that it wasnt something I would use in the house to my mum

[jourdain2]

Nothing wrong with the word 'posse' as others have explained.

[Old_Geezer]

Unless the school has an infestation of cats, I'd suspect posse, meaning a group of folk with something in common. I'm unsure why folk might think otherwise, especially as the child wasn't even sure.

[Hypognosis]

Wierdly, posse was one of those words which had me reaching for the dictionary, as late as my mid-teens, after hearing the expression "we need to gather the posse" in some western. Possibly one which wouldn't pass muster, these days, because it featured a white actor, playing the Native American.

[EcclesCake]

I hope this is a wind up. How can anyone question the use of posse and query it as pussy? Seriously, what adult of moderate intelligence would take this misheard incidence of a young child seriously??????

[Hypognosis]

Even wierder was how O_G's message was fourth on the page, while I was drafting mine. How did 8 messages appear higher up than his?

(Ab Editor, I've seen this happen on threads quite a few times now)

[Peter Pedant]

I think this is a mondegreen -

they killed my lord Alfred and laid him on the green

misinterpreted as they killed my lord Alfred and Lady Mondegreen ....

as an aging deafy - the clarifier - 'I didnt hear what was last said...'is always on my lips ....

[Peter Pedant]

Hypo - contact X files - they are just undergoing a daily re-play ....
( cue eerie X files tune .... do do do do ..... that one )

[campbellking]

Wouldn't regard it as 'street language' at all, and absolutely nothing offensive about it.

[-SharonA-]

Why was you shocked?? What do you think your daughter said?

[jno]

"they have slain the Earl o' Moray, and Lady Mondegreen."

PP, I recall Michael Parkinson's account of going to a school nativity play somewhere oop north and Joseph coming in from a hard day at the workshop to be told by Mary "The Baby Jesus has been a right little booger today."